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A Star Is Born Review

Even when you haven’t seen another three variations on the same novel, the mere actuality that they exist, and with such strong talent, is enough to make anyone laugh about the fact that Hollywood keeps shut-off this well-worn story about celebrity and love and dependence. And after that, you throw in the actuality that it was made by a first-time director, who also appears to be a film star, no less, and the entire thing seems more dubious. Leave that at the doorway, however, since A Star Is Born, is only brilliant a big scale cinematic pleasure that might possess the masses to sing, swooning and sobbing along with it.

Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born

It’s relatively an effort from Bradley Cooper, who led, co-wrote, produced and stars in up the movie. Cooper plays Jackson Maine, an exceptionally popular singer-songwriter whose route intersects with an unknown and overlooked gift named Ally and the two become entangled because his star fades and hers rises. When the movie starts, Jackson reaches the height of his celebrity. The type of popularity where supermarket cashiers take pictures of you without asking, where one could send a personal jet to usher a woman you met at your concert and where one could be an alcoholic teetering on the border since you’re gifted and charismatic and you make a lot of individuals too much money and, besides, you’re primarily working apart from the tinnitus.

Cooper puts up the viewer right with Jackson as he goes on stage at a big festival. His routine, you imagine, doesn’t change that much: Pop the pills. Drink the drink. Take the hat off. Exit stage left to drink some more. Only this night, he ends up someplace a little off his regular course, in a drag bar at which Ally, in full Edith Piaf’s costume, wakes him up from his ambling stupor with La Vie En Rose. And with a star-making close-up of Ally, Jackson, and up the audience, falls in love. Cooper and Gaga have fantastic chemistry, the type that makes you think that two strangers would know at a night that they are made for each other.

Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born

Before you realize it, he is Asking her to come up on stage with him to sing her song, Shallow, which someone movies, puts on YouTube and creates a viral sensation. The first half of A Star Is Born is downright electrifying hilarious, thrilling, sexy and wholly lived-in. Characters you merely met seem like old buddies, from the drag queen to the club to Ally’s father and his fellow drivers. Sam Elliott, as Jackson’s brother, might have fifteen minutes of screen time, but it is enough to break your heart. A Star Is Born is that rare movie that makes you feel a part of a world, and not just as an observer on up the other side of a screen. But like all good things, up the engine of the first hour gets the movie so far, and up the second half has its shortcomings.